The recent death of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused complicated feelings in a lot of Brits. Thatcher may have been a transformative public figure in her time, but in her…   Read Story »

Car fanatics were none-too-thrilled with the lyric video for Vampire Weekend's "Diane Young" and its Saab-arson visuals. As per autoblog Jalopnik, in a post called "Vampire Weekend Are A Bunch Of…   Read Story »

Amidst all the news and conjecture about Lil Wayne's health, another major rap story is exploding tonight. Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame -- friends, frequent collaborators for years, and partners…   Read Story »

Brooklyn dream-poppers DIIV are among the many, many buzzed-about bands playing about 52 shows apiece in Austin this week for SXSW. And they're probably not the only ones who aren't happy about this…   Read Story »

At this point, all the people Azealia Banks has Twitter-feuded with over the past few months should just band together, record a "We Are The World"-style song about the experience, and then just be…   Read Story »

Every year, MTV sends a whole bunch of A-list rappers into paroxysms of rage when it reveals its Hottest MCs In The Game list. The list hasn't even been completely unveiled yet, but rappers are…   Read Story »

James Murphy isn't losing his edge, he's losing money -- a reported $93,899 -- by way of his absent business partner and DFA Records co-founder Tim Goldsworthy, who was compensated for unperformed…   Read Story »

Beautiful creatures died deaths for no reason, and then were served at the Staples Center last night :( After a lengthy and confusing back-and-forth between Morrissey and the Staples Center regarding…   Read Story »

Be straight with me: Is Morrissey okay? Like, is there some method to his madness? Is he just having a laugh here? Is he getting back at us for repeatedly inquiring about the possibility of a Smiths…   Read Story »

There's an old bit of rock apocrypha -- since refuted -- that goes a little something like this: On the eve of the two-and-a-half-year Use Your Illusion tour in 1991, Axl Rose gathered the other…   Read Story »